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Quotes About Arrow

El tiempo vuela como una flecha, decía la niña, y la mosca de la fruta también vuela.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
I remember once in the Holy Land seeing a sign in the shape of an arrow along a road. It said, "Armageddon, 4 kilometers." If ever there was a sign that made you wonder whether you wanted to continue down a road, this was it.
~ Benedict J. Groeschel
My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.
~ Kenneth Arrow
The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.
~ Paulo Coelho
the key concept that ensures reversibility is conservation of information—if the information needed to specify the state of the world is preserved as time passes, we will always be able to run the clock backward and recover any previous state. That's where the real puzzle concerning the arrow of time will arise.
~ Sean Carroll
Time flies like an arrow - but fruit flies like a banana.
~ Terry Wogan
My interpreter Sayuri is folding a piece of notebook paper. She is at step 21, where the crane's body is inflated. The directions show a tiny puff besides an arrow pointing at the bird. It makes sense if you already know what to do. Otherwise, it's wonderfully surreal: Put a cloud inside a bird.
~ Mary Roach
Boomerang arrow, Kate -- It comes back to you in the end. Boomerang. Respect it.
~ Matt Fraction (Author)
When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out.
~ George Crook
Sweet maid, you perform a singular feat With the archer's bow. You pierce hearts not with arrows, But with strands of your beauty.
~ Bhartrhari
We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.
~ Michael Shermer
You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.
~ Hilda Doolittle
A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.
~ Sri Aurobindo
I shall use the phrase "time's arrow" to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.
~ Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
If that happens again someone's gonna get shot.... with an arrow of love!
~ Emilie Autumn
It was a large heart with lots of hearts growing smaller inside, and piercing from the outside rim to the smallest heart was an arrow.
~ Maya Angelou
Robin Hood's Lament"?' Every archer knew that tune.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight must have reached Some one,—Somewhere.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
He hangs on now, pressing his hand lightly against the wall, below the window, waiting for the familiar arrow of pain. Only there is none. An oddly pleasant swell of memory, a wave of warmth flooding over him, sliding back, slowly. It is a first
~ Judith Guest
I have found that there is an order of magnitude difference between bearing the ultimate responsibility for decision-making and being either an advisor or student of the process," he wrote. "It's one thing to experience an orgasm or an arrow between your ribs and it's another thing to read about it.
~ Michael Lewis
Before you marry, you have to get shot by an arrow and fall in love," the boy explained. He paused thoughtfully. "But I don't think the rest of it hurts as much as the beginning.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Passion rules the arrow that flies.
~ Bob Dylan
What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
~ Sylvia Plath
The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the coloured arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
~ Sylvia Plath